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William (Henry) Tyrer (Teyrer) (1789-1841)
Dorthy Jones (or Morris) and their Descendants.

William (Henry) Tyrer (Teyrer) was the first child of William Tyrer, Sr. (1740s-1830s) and Margaret Hughes. William was born on 31 October 1789. One of William's relatives, Olwen Tyrer of Amlwch, stated in the 1970s that he lived in Llangfini. During the summer he farmed and in the winter he worked at a coal mine about two miles from that town. He was also a singing evangelist. He traveled all over Wales with another evangelist, Christmas Evans, who was from Llangfini. A chapel was built at Llangfini as a memorial to Evans in 1897. In the mid-1820s William married Dorthy Jones (or Morris) (1785-1865). Dorthy was from Anglesey. Her father was a Holyhead skipper. According to Margaret. Reynolds, he may have had a wife who died, prior to his marriage to Dorthy. In 1825 William and Dorthy had a daughter, Margaret Morris Teyrer. She was born at Amlwch. In about 1828 or 1832 William, his wife and their three-year old daughter migrated to the United States. They landed at Boston and settled at Radnor, Ohio. They migrated in the company of Christmas Evans. William died of malaria in 1841. He is buried in the Dyer lot at the Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio. Dorthy died in 1865 and is buried in the same cemetery.

At the time of her dad’s death, Margaret Morris Teyrer (1825-1914) stopped going to school and left the family farm. She married Elbridge Gary Dyer (1816-1875) in 1845. He was from Saco, Maine. They had eight children. These were:

1) William Dyer was perhaps born at Columbus, Ohio and died in infancy.
2) Georgianna Dyer died in infancy.
3) Rufes M. Dyer died of a ruptured appendix as a young man.
4) William H. Dyer (1853-1921). He was married twice. He was an alcoholic. When his dad died in 1873, he stayed in Hamilton, Ohio. Later he moved to Chicago and still later to Evansville, Indiana. He became a manufacturer of “Dyer Pork and Beans,” which the government ordered in great quantities during World War I. At the close of the war he went bankrupt and committed suicide. He left a wife. He had an adopted daughter named Ruth. He is buried at Hamilton, Ohio.
5) Abigail Irene Dyer (1855-1936) was born at Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio. She went to medical school and married Edmund Tierney (or Thomas D?) Allen (1856-1913). He was a doctor. She is buried at Hamilton, Ohio. Abigail and Edmund had five children. They were:

Henry Allen was the first child of Abigail and Edmund Allen. He died at birth.

Thomas Dyer Allen (b. 1888) was born at Omaha, Nebraska. He married first, Florence See and then Ruth Delzell Mather. By his first wife Thomas had five children. By his second wife Thomas had three children. These were:

1) Thomas Dyer Allen
2) James See Allen
3) Priscilla Allen
4) Robert See Allen
5) Florence Allen
6) Richard Delzell Mather
7) Asher King Mather
8) Alice Royce Mather

Mary Allen (1890-1891) was born and died at Omaha, Nebraska.

Margaret Minerva Allen (1893-1973) was the fourth child of Abigail and Edmund Allen. She married Frank J. Reynolds (b. 1901). Margaret Allen Reynolds graduated from Denison University, Granville, Ohio and for many years was a high school teacher. Her husband was a professor (PhD) of plant pathology. He taught and was with the government in Peru, the Philippines (three years there) and Central America. At the time of her death she was living at Ormond Beach, Florida.

To the left is a picture of Margaret Minerva Allen Reynolds. She is standing on the left. In the middle is her daughter Margaret L. Reynolds Broussard and on the right is Frank Reynolds. The picture was taken in July 1971 when their cousin, Edward Terrar (1920-2004) visited them in Florida. (ter-jpg/V1-20-2.jpg).

Margaret and Frank had four children. They were:

Frank Allen Reynolds (b. 1931) was a dentist who lived at Ormond Beach, Florida in the 1970s.
Loretta Reynolds died in 1935.
Margaret Lucille Reynolds (b. 1933) married William Broussard in 1953. He was a medical doctor (opthologist) at Satellite Beach, Florida in the 1970s. They had four children: Dianne, Lynn, Allen and Laura.
Mary Frances Reynolds (b. 1937).

Edmund Turney Allen (1896-1943) was the fifth child of Abigail and Edmund Allen. He married Florence Lee Brydon Weir.

Edmund Turney Allen, Jr. is pictured to the left at Chanut Field, Rantoul, Illinois in about 1919. He was in the process of obtaining his pilot's certificate. (ter-jpg/V1-1-1.jpg). In time he became the chief test pilot for Boeing in Seattle, Washington. He died on the job, testing the B-29. It crashed. Florence and Edmund had two children: Florence Turney Allen (b. 1940) and Edmund Carl Allen (b. 1941).

6) Albion Morris Dyer (1857-1911) was born at Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio. He put himself through Colgate University, then Madison and became a journalist. Before his marriage to Ella Maria Dunham, he lived in Cleveland, Ohio and worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1890 he owned a newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska. Three years later he moved to Hastings on the Hudson River in New York. He worked in New York City for the Sun newspaper. He interviewed the wealthiest woman in the world, Hetty Green. At Buffalo in 1901 he was the first to scoop the shooting of President McKinley. In 1903 he went to St. Louis, Missouri and edited the Program and Daily Bulletin. Later he went to Warren, Ohio and lived in the house of his grandfather, Griswold. There he went to medical school, then taught school at Akron, Ohio. He was in charge of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland and obtained a master’s degree. He did research at the Library of Congress and wrote a book, First Ownership of Ohio Land (1911). He is buried at Cleveland, Ohio. Albion and Ella Maria Dyer had four children. They were:

Elbridge Griswold Dyer married Florence Foster.
Sidney Dunham Dyer
Dorthy Dyer was born in 1890 at Omaha. She attended Holton Arms School in Washington, DC. She married Stephen E. Nichols (1892-1958) in 1917.
Truman Dunham Dyer. He married Gwendolyn Sent.

7) Mabel A. Dyer (1859-1921) was born at Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio. She married George Stickney and is buried in Massachusetts. They had four children:

Thurlow Stickney died in infancy.
Marguerite Stickney (1887-1896).
Helen Stickney (b. 1890).
Genevieve Stickney (b. 1908).

8) Margaret Teyrer Dyer (1865-1966) was born at Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio. She married David Russell Byard in 1898. He was a pharmacist in Hamilton, Ohio. She is buried at Hamilton, Ohio. David and Margaret had one child: Margaret Russell Byard (b. 1899), who married Joseph Edward Keller in 1925 and had three children.